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Post by Admin on Sept 26, 2021 14:08:48 GMT -6
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Post by vitugglan on Sept 27, 2021 15:52:57 GMT -6
It gets hairy. If the characters were assigned by Marvel, that is, they owned the character idea and just assigned this idea to a writer or artist, then it's work for hire and the families are out of luck. If the writer or artist came up with the concept, and then Marvel said they liked it and would take the property on, then at some point rights revert to the originator. From what I understand, the families are only asking for residuals, not to take the property away, which they could do if their relation was the originator. Depends on how the courts see the relationship - work for hire, or intellectual property holder.
Disney's been having trouble along these lines with Star Wars, too. Writers for various Star Wars books haven't been paid royalties and they're yelling about it.
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Post by Admin on Oct 14, 2021 17:18:12 GMT -6
I would be screaming at Disney as well. I'm still pissed at them for just declaring the Star Wars EU as "Legends" (and then they have the gall to cherry pick -- if not outright retcon -- even the stuff from the original six movies. The Brothers Grimm's Cinderella's Lady Tremaine would be so proud that Disney is chopping off the toes and heels to fit the glass slipper.
I've never had a book, novella or short story published, but I know the work that goes into writing. The fandom I was "raised" in did not allow use of the author's characters (our corner of the sandbox wasn't even allowed to be openly descended from them) and there was one area of that world-map we were not even allowed to play in because it was so prominent in the timeline/history of that series of books, the author knew any group establishing a fandom base there would try to "lord it over" everyone else. But we still had to world-build the history of our group (and a lot of us dove really, really deep! lol), background, origins and so forth. What we didn't have to come up with were the pieces the author had already put into place and how somethings ran and so forth.
So, yeah, even working in someone else's universe it takes time, effort and so forth to bring a story from brain-cell to reader.
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Post by vitugglan on Oct 15, 2021 16:45:40 GMT -6
The writers of Star Wars and other reboots/reimaginings and sequels should have been a part of your group, with the exception that whoever wrote the Star Wars sequels should have gotten Luke, Han and Leia into at least one scene together.
Yeah, writing in someone else's universe is demanding - you have to know the world and make it real in your story. It's actually easier to start a universe of your own, but then, you still need to do the homework to make it work like a real universe after that. H'wood types don't want to put in that work.
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